Lamentations 2:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD has done everything that he had planned and threatened long ago. He destroyed you without mercy and let your enemies boast about their powerful forces.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

I will no longer let my people Israel live in this land I gave them. I will desert this temple where I said I would be worshipped. Then people everywhere will think this nation is only a joke and will make fun of it.

Psalm 35:24

and prove that I am right by your standards. Don't let them laugh at me

Psalm 35:26

Disappoint and confuse all who are glad to see me in trouble, but disgrace and embarrass my proud enemies who say to me, “You are nothing!”

Psalm 38:16

I said, “Don't let them laugh or boast because I slip.”

Psalm 89:42

You made his enemies powerful and let them celebrate.

Psalm 89:43

But you forced him to retreat because you did not fight on his side.

Isaiah 14:29

Philistines, don't be happy just because the rod that punished you is broken. That rod will become a poisonous snake, and then a flying fiery dragon.

Jeremiah 18:11

So listen to me, people of Judah and Jerusalem! I have decided to strike you with disaster, and I won't change my mind unless you stop sinning and start living right.

Jeremiah 40:3

But they continued to rebel against him, and now he has punished them just as he threatened.

Lamentations 1:5

Enemies now rule the city and live as they please. The LORD has punished Jerusalem because of her awful sins; he has let her people be dragged away.

Lamentations 2:8

The LORD had decided to tear down the walls of Zion stone by stone. So he started destroying and did not stop until walls and fortresses mourned and trembled.

Lamentations 3:43

Anger is written all over you, as you pursue and slaughter us without showing pity.

Lamentations 4:11

The LORD was so fiercely angry that he burnt the city of Zion to the ground.

Ezekiel 5:11

Your disgusting sins have made my temple unfit as a place to worship me. So I swear by my own life that I will turn my back on you and show you no pity.

Ezekiel 8:18

So in my fierce anger, I will punish them without mercy and refuse to help them when they cry out to me.”

Ezekiel 9:10

And so I will not have pity on them or forgive them. They will be punished for what they have done.”

Daniel 9:12

You warned us and our leaders that Jerusalem would suffer the worst disaster in human history, and you did exactly as you had threatened.

Micah 2:3

But here is what the LORD says: “I am planning trouble for you. Your necks will be caught in a noose, and you will be disgraced in this time of disaster.”

Zephaniah 1:2

I, the LORD, now promise to destroy everything on this earth—

Zechariah 1:6

But my warnings and my words spoken by the prophets caught up with your ancestors. So they turned back to me and said, “LORD All-Powerful, you have punished us for our sins, just as you had planned.”